The mission of this blog is to promote the proposition that you and I should dedicate ourselves to building a culture of peace by affirming that humanism will triumph the theologies of despair and the ideologies of violence: a commitment to eliminate war and all other forms of violence.

Control of the rental-home industry by Wall Street began during the Great Recession, when many families lost their homes and had to move into rentals. As the foreclosure crisis deepened, Wall Street began snatching up homes for pennies on the dollar, and now real estate is the third-busiest industry for mergers in America.

The central pitch for the Trump administration’s proposed federal budget is that it will jump start economic growth. “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” as the budget revealed is being called, promises a spike in annual GDP growth over the next decade from less than 2 percent to 3 percent.